Why Build Links? 6 Reasons You Should Be Link Building in 2014

by Jon Ball

Is there a version of Google that excludes backlinks as a ranking factor?

Hi Matt, does the big G have a version of the search engine that totally excludes any backlink relevance? I'm wondering what search would look like and am curious to try it out. BlueBumbleBee, Colchester, UK Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow us on Twitter and look for an announcement when we take new questions: http://twitter.com/googlewmc More videos: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Central: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

SMX West 2014: Keynote with Google Search Chief Amit Singhal

Amit Singhal has overseen Google's search engine ranking algorithms since 2000. From the Knowledge Graph, to Google Voice Search, to Google's new "Hummingbird" algorithm update, no one has better insight into Google's many methods of trying to make sense of the world's information than Singhal. In this keynote conversation with Search Engine Land founding editor Danny Sullivan, Singhal discusses some of Google's recent updates and share his vision for what search might look like five years down the road. Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West Keynote. San Jose, CA, March 11, 2013. For more information, please visit: http://searchmarketingexpo.com/

online.wsj.com - 11 readers - Google has registered 90 million users for its new social network, but it is a virtual ghost town compared with rival Facebook. Users are spending on average just minutes at Google+ each month even as they log hours on Facebook.